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Refineries Emit Unsafe Levels Of Benzene Amid Insufficient EPA Action: IG

"An internal watchdog is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to step up its actions to address emissions of cancer-causing benzene, saying that oil refineries have been releasing unsafe levels of the substance."

Source: The Hill, 09/08/2023

Alaskan Fishers Fear Bleak Season As Crab Numbers Dwindle In Warming Waters

"Gabriel Prout worked four seasons on his father’s crab boat, the Silver Spray, before joining his two brothers in 2020 to buy a half-interest plus access rights for a snow crab fishery that’s typically the largest and richest in the Bering Sea. Then in 2021, disaster: an annual survey found crabs crashing to an all-time low."

Source: AP, 09/07/2023

61 Indicted In Georgia On RICO Charges Connected To ‘Stop Cop City’ Movement

"ATLANTA — Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility in the Atlanta area that critics call “Cop City.”

In the sweeping indictment released Tuesday, Republican Attorney General Chris Carr alleged the defendants are “militant anarchists” who supported a violent movement that prosecutors trace to the widespread 2020 racial justice protests.

Source: AP, 09/07/2023

"States Withhold Cooling Aid For The Poor As Heat Gets Deadlier"

"More than 30 million low-income households that are eligible for federal funding to defray the cost of air conditioning have not received any money from a government program that was created to protect vulnerable people from dangerous temperatures, an E&E News analysis shows."

Source: E&E News, 09/07/2023

"Biden To Cancel ANWR Leases, Expand Arctic Drilling Protections"

"Nearly three years after the Trump administration sold the first-ever oil drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the White House Wednesday canceled those leases in a huge blow to pro-oil Alaskans."

Source: E&E News, 09/07/2023

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